Chaos vehicle rules help

One of my two friends who plays warhammer has finished his chaos LR, and my other friend was telling me about it today. He told me I wouldn't be able to attack it in CC because of some rule called "spikey bits" or something. Then he told me I couldn't kill it because it's daemonically possessed. Could someone clarify where he might be getting this from? I don't have much experience with Chaos, and I think my friend just has too big of an imagination.:rolleyes:

There's a couple of things it could have. Dedication to Tzeentch gives it some measure of defense if you assault it. There's also Living Vehicle, but that's a trash upgrade. Daemonic Possession is a great upgrade, means you can't Shake or Stun it, but it loses the ability to transport troops.

But I must repeat - there is no upgrade ever that makes anything unkillable. That's just silly.

I know how you feel. My friend's (Imp Guard) medi-pack not only allowed the squad to toss the first failed save every time a squad shot at it, it also allowed units within 6" of the medic to do this. What this boiled down to is me asking what was this wonderful upgrade, me staring at him while he stared at the same page of his Codex for about 8 and a half minutes, and then telling me to keep playing and he'd let me know when he found it. That was a good day. :w00t: except more like (

But I'm pretty sure when you put spiky bits on a Land Raider it confers 17 armour on all sides, and allows it to attack in close combat with its lascannons. For 10 poitns is a great upgrade.

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What your friend may be referring to is parasitic possession where he gets a chance to repair weapon destroyed or immobilized results. Overall it just sounds like he's being a butthead though. Yeah, that's right, I went there.

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No base to base contact

How about this level of rules lawyering?

If you place all the chaos vehicle "spiky bits" on the accessory sprew in such a way that no model can get into base to base contact with the Land Raider, then no one can charge it because no model can get into base-to-base!

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If I knew someone that did that I would probably never play them. I can see a particular smart person trying to get away with that and in a way it makes sense, but it's borderline cheating and is cheesy as hell. If i played that I would start putting my guys on top of the tank and assaulting it if he wants to be like that. then a couple days after I could just play his game..."hey i have tentacles on all my plague marines making it impossible to get base to base with them!" "and you cant shoot them because the tentacles disorients their image making them hard to aim at!" C'mon this game is about strategy and learing from your mistakes not about winning and creating some uber undestroyable machine of killiness

If you place all the chaos vehicle "spiky bits" on the accessory sprew in such a way that no model can get into base to base contact with the Land Raider, then no one can charge it because no model can get into base-to-base!

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Hey, that's a good idea! I have lots of leftover spiky tank bits from my predator, I could totally pull that off! But seriously, I think if they do that you should just say the spiky bits constitute the new edge fo the tank so charging units just don't have to move as far to get into CC.

Originally Posted by Power Armored Zombie

If I knew someone that did that I would probably never play them. I can see a particular smart person trying to get away with that and in a way it makes sense, but it's borderline cheating and is cheesy as hell. If i played that I would start putting my guys on top of the tank and assaulting it if he wants to be like that. then a couple days after I could just play his game..."hey i have tentacles on all my plague marines making it impossible to get base to base with them!" "and you cant shoot them because the tentacles disorients their image making them hard to aim at!" C'mon this game is about strategy and learing from your mistakes not about winning and creating some uber undestroyable machine of killiness

Yeah, I've stopped inviting the medi-pack guy when we play now, and it's just a lot more fun. I wish I could remember some of the other more ridiculous things he did... I remember ISTs had the same stats as Space Marines once, that was interesting. "You wound on a what? A four? How do you wound on a four? Oh you forgot? That's convenient."

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